In this report, results from well over 650 real-life cross-media marketing campaigns across 27 vertical markets are analyzed and compared to industry benchmarks for response rates of static direct mail campaigns, to provide a solid base of actual performance data and information.

Reach your customers on one of the world’s most popular social platforms.
Due to hundreds of millions of active daily users, Instagram is becoming a key component in every cross-device marketing strategy. To help you reach and engage a wider audience, we put together The Performance Advertiser’s Guide to Instagram.
Highlights from the guide:
Guidelines for Instagram ad formats
Essential tips for Instagram advertising success
How to track the performance of your campaigns
How other companies have used Instagram to grow their business
And more!

The art and science of effective marketing and demand generation is like a great recipe- Marketing master chefs turn traditional pairings on their sides by re-engineering campaign planning and turning siloed fixings into successful mixings.
Read seven master chefs’ recipes for their most customer-approved dishes.

SQL is a critical skill for business intelligence. From accessing to transforming to reporting on data, SQL gives you the power to get the job done. It can help you discover exactly how your company is performing, what your customers are doing, or how people have reacted to your marketing campaigns.
Unfortunately, while SQL can tell you what has happened, it can’t tell you what will happen. What if you have questions like:
• How valuable is a lead based on company attributes and their behavior on our website? • How much MRR will we generate in the next 30 days? • Which customers are likely to churn next month?

In July 2013 Acxiom commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate how companies use the data they collect from their customers to make better decisions on their marketing campaigns by gauging their experiences and attitudes around their use of and future vision for using customer data across multiple marketing channels. In order to understand this topic, we conducted interviews with 11 executives representing a range of roles and perspectives, including consumer packaged goods companies, financial services organizations, and agencies.

If you are responsible for online advertising, this report is going to change the way you look at your banner ads forever. It did for us. But, step one on the road to this transformation was deciding exactly what to measure. Download this whitepaper to learn about a new measurement approach that proves banner ads boost offline sales.

In this paper, we explore the challenges of quantifying social marketing’s financial and nonfinancial ROI and how businesses are employing strategic measurements that reveal dividends beyond the bottom line.

Download Putting Email Marketing in Context to learn:
- How to overcome common challenges of personalisation and email
- Best practices for implementing contextual email on a low budget
- How to measure the effect of your contextual marketing campaigns

Half a century later in the real corporate world, the revolution heralded in that scene is finally hitting the pivot point. Technology and creativity are fusing to make marketing campaigns exponentially more effective than they were just a decade ago.

Many hospital Chief Marketing Officers continue to debate whether their institution should transform their traditional marketing campaigns and embrace digital marketing. If you are in doubt as to whether digital marketing is important to your success and the success of your hospital, look at the countless articles, white papers, and blogs that have been published over the past several years that talk to the use of the internet and web-based services by patients and consumers. Here are a few of the latest examples from Pew Research Center’s Health Fact Sheet (

Human targeted attacks continued to lead the pack in 2016. Attackers’ used automation and personalisation to increase the volume and click-through rates of their campaigns. Taking a page from the B2B e-marketer’s playbook, cyber criminals are adopting marketing best practices and sending their campaigns on Tuesdays and Thursdays when click-through rates are higher. Meanwhile, BEC and credential phishing attacks targeted the human factor directly--no technical exploits needed. Instead, they used social engineering to persuade victims into sending money, sensitive information and account credentials.
Timing is everything—attackers know that hitting your employees with a well-crafted email at the just the right time produces the best results. Of course, this varies by region. So if you are responsible for worldwide SecOps, you need visibility into not only attack patterns but also when and which employees tend to click.

These days, everyone knows people use multiple channels for shopping, researching products, and communicating with friends and colleagues. Marketers have responded by using a variety of channels to communicate their message. In fact 55% of marketers use at least 10 channels within their marketing channel-mix according to the findings of recent Aberdeen research.
The facts are:
Utilizing multiple channels has become the ‘new normal.'
Simply adding yet another channel within the channel-mix is not enough for marketers to differentiate their business.
Instead, savvy marketers distinguish themselves by orchestrating campaigns across all channels to deliver truly personalized and consistent conversations.
Download this guide to learn the business value marketers derive by mastering orchestration of omni-channel marketing campaigns. It’ll also reveal several building blocks marketers must use to achieve superior results.

Maximize your email marketing campaigns and improve ROI- let the "25 Essentials for Exceptional Email Campaigns" be your guide to the essential rules of email engagement, with fundamental best practices that will help you get the most from your email marketing efforts.

The Sojern Traveler Platform offers hotels of all sizes access to over 350 million traveler profiles that allow you to precisely target prospects at all stages of the marketing funnel. You can also manage campaigns across multiple channels and devices, maintain brand awareness, increase purchase consideration, and turn site visitors into hotel room bookers.

Using a Multi-Store Ecommerce Strategy to Significantly Increase Customer Acquisition.
As Ecommerce becomes a leading strategy for businesses, online retailers are presented with a challenge: how to increase sales by personalizing the customer shopping experience and strengthening the brand. The solution is to develop a multi-store strategy that "divides and conquers" this challenge. Retailers can develop several online stores that cater to distinct customer demographics, optimize separate checkout flows based on product, or improve conversion rates in marketing campaigns.